The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-11-11
THEIR FATE SEALED.
Four Of the Anarchists 10 be Hanged
Today.
Pielden and SehWab Receive COmmu.
tatiOn Of Their Sentence.
While Lingg Cheats the GalIOWs and
Commits Suicide.
Touching PareWells Of the Four
Doomed Anarchists.
Chicago Waiting in a State Of
Seigs.

tempt 10 take MS own lie. lie nau In nls
possession Illuminating cap, SO small as to
be easily concealed from the vigilance,of the
guards who have watched the prisoner every
moment night and day, and yet of such
power that its use, as Lingg used in his last
reckless attempt to escape the gallows, rem
dered the failure of the Anarchists deed
almost impossible. 1t seems that Lingg held
the cap in his mouth and Lit it with the can
die which was burning in his cell. The ex-
plosion was the first warning that the jail
people had. The guard seeing him with a
candle in his hand supposed he was lighting
cigar. The explosion was terrific. II
startled the officials who thought it was a
bomb, the noise being so great. The shell
was small enough to have allowed smuggling
into the jail without trouble.
All day yesterday it was thought that
Lingg acted in strange manner. Tuesday
night he gave out his farewell address which
was written for the Alarm, Parsons old
paper.
Immediately after the explosion this morn
ing Deputy O'Eeil rushed into Lingg's cell,
which was completely filed with smoke.
There he found the young Anarchist lying
ON his back, with great holes in his head,
from which blood was fast running. He was
at once carriedinto the Jail office and placed
on table. He was still breathing family
and while DR.. Gray was examining him he
coughed slightly and blood poured forth
again from his terrible wounds.
Jailor Folze having made an examination
of Lingg's s cell FUND on the floor the shell of
the fulminatingcap. The sheriff said there
had undoubtedly been dynamite in it.
Last Defiance.
A few days ago Lingg was asked to write
farewell letter to his fellow Anarchists. He
did so and it was secretly placed in the
hands Of the publisher of the recently re-
viyed Alarm, to be.printed after his death.
The letter now falls into the hands of the
reporters and is given below.
Lingg was well-educated man in the lit
erature of his fatherland. His manuscript
is rich in idioms difficult to anglicize. The
letter is highly interesting. 1t is practi-
cally voice from the dead and the singular
characteristics of the man are evinced by his
farewell. Lingg evidently intended to re-
late more of bis experiences during the
search Of his cell on Sunday, but he speedily
branched off from the subject of his awful
position and launched out on promulgation
of his revolutionary principles. The mani
fest0 follows
CHICAGO JAIL, Nov. 6, 1887.
To Worthy Citizen -:
You bade me yesterday to write you a let
ter which you could put in the Alarm. Now,
think review of the experiences that l
have gone through today. and my views in
regard to the same, will be just what you
want Well. today is Sunday. On this day
we so-called criminals" usually sit undis-
turbed in our cells, and so, to shorten what
would otherwise be a long day, we get up
very late.
Thus it happened that at o'clock this
morning still rested in the arms of Nor
| pheus. Suddenly the lock of my cell began
| to rattle. As raised my hand to rub the
| sleep from my eyes | realized that another
hand had taken hold of mine. beheld two
minions of the law standing before me, who,
despite the fact that, like Grinnell, l have
| enmlty for no one, and that have done
| nothing to justify such treatment seized me
| in less time than IL takes to describe, and
| before l knew what had happened l found
myself outside my cell. Next / beheld our
| faithful guardian friend, Engel, who, in
| view OF his thin condition, was looked upon
as less dangerous than myself, and who, in
fact, was asked if he would not be so kind
| and cOndescending, if it were possible for
! him to do so, to step into the lower cell
| Here we all had a splendid chance to see
| them ransack our cells and first throw every
thing out and then toss them back again.
Finding nothing, they quickly provided
| other cells for us on the ground floor and
arranged them for our occupancy. AT IL
| O'Clock we took possession of them, and at
the same time Citizens Parsons and Fischer
| all became tenants of our row, with Spies,
friend, already seen how all this was, no
doubt, done for grand display 1t was de-
| scribed by your less faithful colleagues in
the leading daily papers.
The plundering press claims that we
| should in the interests of the working
classes-not to say anything Of the aristo-
| cracy-give in, so that we should not die. l,
| as well as all others in the secret, know full
well that firm adherence to the plan laid
| out would have saved us from the gallowS.
Even if it should not have done SO, what
then?
Now. Judge McAllister,. if the report Of
| "Plunderer" is true, says that in the event OF
our execution the arist0cracy, those monopo-
lists, :those powerful capitalists, will in a
few years see all they possess go up in smoke
and flame. Now. who is this Judge Meal,
lister? A bourgeois of most noble mien ?
Shall /, then, again tell you of the terrible
| plight we are in. Shall / also allude to ouI
former condition and how true to our revo-
lutionary training we agltated not alone by
speech, by writing, but by deed. But, then
| Won know il is-a wise as well as true saving
to trust no one. You know also that l can
not handle other subjects as well as this one
My hatred of the system which brings about
the present condition of the working people
and which | can well say my, without egot.
ism) disinterested love for the cause of free
dom has.kept me in every instance not alone
from begging for mercy, but has enabled me
to remain firm and demand nothing but sim
pie justice.
Parsons, Engel and Fischer, was compelled
to resist even the pleadings of our amnesty
committee, and refuse to sign the petition
they presented. Realizing that unless stul
tify my principles / cannot escape tile grin
monster. | now calmly face death. and ir
view of the results that it will bring abou
| in favor of Anarchism, look on my taking of
with no fear. You, worthy citizen, know
this fully as well as do. | and every othe
true Anarchist know that we have create
enemy to face than death, and that is the so
called upper class of the present day, and t,
overcome whom we, to be true to our train
ing. must be willing not only to sacrifice ou
liberty but give up our lives. l have alway
treated the propaganda Of deeds in the ab
stract / realize that those who have amass
| ed fortunes and thus become capitalists, ar
NOT alone the masters OF fellow workInen
but also their Oppressors and murderers.
| know also, that unless the labOring peopl
get their rights by measures Of legislation
| that the day is not far distant when the aw
full consequences of this continuous persecu
tion of the proletariat will be manifested
and revolution, that all know, must natural
ly follow such state of affairs, will be re
ality. The continuous aggregation of cap
tai, caused by the production of material
does not better the condition of the workin
classes. This does not require any wonder
full degree of intellect to comprehend
Through the propaganda of the deed onl
can our best interests be served, and the cor
dition of the workingman bettered
This has been fully proven by the event
of the past two years, during which time W
have openly taught our masters that elias
distinction, brought about by their instru
mentality, is not the best for all concerned
In view of all the circumstances of the cas-
naturally find that, despite the facts ths
philanthropists are trying to induce me NJ
to invite the fate that overshadows me, ths